The West Indies: Being a Description of the Islands, Progress of Christianity, Education, and Liberty Among the Colored Population GenerallyPrince, Nancy
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The West Indies: Being a Description of the Islands, Progress of Christianity, Education, and Liberty Among the Colored Population Generally
Prince, Nancy
Black people -- Jamaica; Jamaica -- Description and travel; West Indies -- Description and travel
There is in Jamaica an institution, established in 1836, and called
the Mico Institution; it is named after its founder, Madame Mico, who
left a large sum of money to purchase, (or rather to ransom, the one
being a Christian act, the other a sin against the Holy Ghost, who
expressly forbids such traffic;) thus having corrected myself, I will
resume. Madame Mico left this money to ransom the English who were in
bondage to the Algerines; if there were any left, it was to be devoted
to the instruction of the colored people in the British Islands; at
this institution, six adults, men and women, are prepared for teachers.
Whole number taught since the commencement 485—there is a day school for
children, 29 is the regular number—whole number 2,491—Sabbath Schools 9,
whole number taught 6,654—the adults and the Sunday scholars have to pay
one Mack a month. Besides the Mico establishment, there are in Jamaica 27
Church Missionary Schools, where 2,461 children are taught gratis. Adult
schools, 5—whole number taught, 475. Sabbath Schools 14—whole number
taught, 1,952. London Missionary Society Schools, 16—whole number taught
not ascertained. National Schools, 38—whole number taught, 2,500.
The Wesleyan, Presbyterian and Moravian schools, besides these; it is
supposed there are private schools where three or four thousand are
educated in the city of Kingston, and twice that number in the streets,
without the means of education. All the children and adults taught in
the above named schools, are taxed £1 a year, except the English Church
school, this is the most liberal. The Rev. Mr. Horton, a Baptist minister
in Kingston, told me he had sent 90 children away from the Baptist
school, because they did not bring their money. It is sufficient to say
they had it not to bring!
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